I, Wabenzi
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865475830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Powerful, if Incomplete, "Memoir"" according to Lawrence Baldwin. From the dust jacket, we learn that Rafi's autobiographical "Memoir" is planned to stretch to four volumes. Indeed, this volume gets him only as far as England in his planned trip to Turkey, and he never acquires the Mercedes Benz which inspires the book's title. But as with much travel, the enjoyment is in the sights and sound. A Wonderful, Mysterious Book I thoroughly enjoyed Rafi's new book. I've loved Rafi's writing since reading some of his stuff in Musician in the 1970's, and I found it fascinating to learn more about his life. This book takes many interesting twists and turns, and I eagerly await the remaining volumes.. Not easy to read, but worth the trouble Marilyn Dalrymple Intelligent and well written, Wabenzi: A Souvenir reveals the life of the author, Rafi Zabor, to readers. Zabor's words tell of incidents in his life- happenings - that affected him. The death of his parents, the memory of his, " ghostly grandmother - with her salty fingers, claw-like hands, sallow hollow cheeks, loose false te
The result--the first of a projected four volumes--is one of the most original, capacious, and vivid narratives of the last few decades, a real-life Bildungsroman dealing with an expanded range of human experience, from matters of life and death to a piece of what lies beyond them. Straight from the unchartered territory between Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Tristram Shandy, I, Wabenzi lifts a corner of the known world as if it were the edge of a curtain, and begins to show a reality new to our literature gleaming on the other side.. Some time ago Rafi Zabor sat down to write a brief narrative of the year 1986. That was the year he set out across two continents in a used Mercedes--"Wabenzi" is the Swahili word for a member of the Mercedes-owning class--to buy a grave stone for his friend Mahmoud Rauf and to outrun the shadow of his own parents' recent death.But like a boat against the current, the writer was drawn back into the past: his father's escape from the Nazis, Rafi's own Brooklyn boyhood surrounded by the fractious, Zabors and Zaborovskys, and the anguished--sometimes farcical--spiritual journey that led Zabor from Brooklyn to
But if Zabor is a mystic, given to visions and dreams, his memoir is nevertheless grounded in the joys, sorrows and many little vanities of ordinary life. But for fans of Zabor's PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novel, The Bear Comes Home, such intricacies will be part of the book's attraction. Religion, or rather the self-conscious struggle to connect earthly experience with the divine, also colors a large part of the book, particularly toward the end. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. And his account of his mother's descent into angry senility would be despairing if it weren't so often leavened with humor. . A jazz drummer and music critic, Zabor has a great feel for the rhythms and melodies of language, but it is his skill at portraiture that will really lure readers. All rights reserved. The narrative is rich, allusive and only loosely chronological; it often skips among the events of several decades within a sin